The Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors Makeover Show

So all the time we were borrowing to build new houses, there were thousands lying empty.This is the benign market working intelligently, again.Shame a few more of these homes couldn’t have been renovated in the last ten years to reduce the amount of dodgy debt, and perhaps mitigate the crash we’ve just experienced. Even better, councils could have been allowed to spend some of their Right To Buy cash on building new stock, which would have provided rented accomodation for those who cared more about living than about their place on the ‘property ladder’. That would have reduced the scramble for credit too, and softeneed the recent bump. But all that would have taken politicians with some guts and ideas.The RICS can’t say they didn’t warn us 12 months ago.